Example sentences of "and [verb] at a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I stood up and gazed at a small pile of my toys which had been thrown to one side of my cupboard . |
| 2 | The first is where the whole of the programme is provided by and taught at a major centre , as in the case of Bristol Polytechnic ; the second is where the first year is provided extra-murally at a number of associated centres , while the second year only is provided at the main centre , as the case of Portsmouth Polytechnic ; and the third is where both the first and second years are provided at the main and associate centres as at Plymouth Polytechnic and Cornwall Technical College , Camborne . |
| 3 | It should be based on or at least draw from coherent bodies of knowledge which go beyond mere skill and are capable of being explicated and taught at a high level . |
| 4 | Duties are changing and accumulating at a faster rate than they can be successfully discharged . |
| 5 | We called out from where we hid in different rooms and listened to our voices echo , we strummed on the few keys left on a rotting piano , and plucked at a broken lute … . |
| 6 | One fan sang along and plucked at an imaginary guitar , but he turned out to be the roadie . |
| 7 | But she is excellent in the play-extracts , lending Amanda in Private Lives just the right touch of acid mockery and hinting at a whole world of repressed longing as the suburban wife in Still Life ( the embryonic version of Brief Encounter ) . |
| 8 | Nevertheless they mounted and rode at a good trot up the great road towards the north . |
| 9 | The deepest area is a central depression some 2500km long and 1500km wide , surrounding the North Pole and oriented at a right angle to Greenland ( Figure 5.2 ) . |
| 10 | Its format is usually standard , though much of the information collected and reported at a particular time may not be relevant to current development issues . |
| 11 | The Joyces returned to Ireland in 1909 , and William was brought up a Roman Catholic and educated at a Jesuit college where he excelled in Latin , French , and German . |
| 12 | Alternative arrangements can be developed and their performances assessed , and areas of possible problems can be identified and alleviated at an early stage of the design . |
| 13 | In spring , either dig up the shrub and replant at a deeper level , or mound soil round its base so that only the upper half of stems is exposed . |
| 14 | emergency lighting system redesigned to operate when immersed and tipped at a severe angle |
| 15 | Such questions would need to be studied and evaluated at a local level . |
| 16 | He took the wheel after that and drove at a furious speed back to San José , where he turned right on to the Pan-Am . |
| 17 | A simple way of introducing still image work with this age group is to have them walk or run round the hall and then stop and freeze at a given signal . |
| 18 | If parents do not find time for such training they will spend more time scolding and correcting at a later stage . |
| 19 | The sample is placed in a heating block and warmed at a uniform rate . |
| 20 | By Barry Turnbull A GAS blast served up bangers and smash at an award-winning butcher 's shop . |
| 21 | Turning to football , the West Indies have done nothing on an international scale , though the game is popular and played at a domestic level . |
| 22 | The input to a program should be clear and kept to a minimum ; the output on the screen should be clear and presented at a sensible speed ; and any ‘ special ’ or complex computer procedures should appear to the user as ordinary and easy to use . |
| 23 | I want you to come and look at a week-old bull calf . |
| 24 | Bob felt obliged to go and look at a certain number of these places out of politeness . |
| 25 | When Rachel was finally writing up her reports at the end of the morning , Nina suddenly called her and asked if she could come and look at a young man who had come in with a skin rash . |
| 26 | They decide to go and look at a new house they passed earlier in the day . |
| 27 | More than once they saw a passer-by , soaking wet , shout threats and curses at an open window . |
| 28 | The Figure omits the clones and probes spanning the rDNA region , because the majority of these clones also hybridise to over half of of the other YAC probes , and so it is not possible to place these clones and probes at a single position on the map . |
| 29 | Lecture notes should never consist of many words , for the presence of such a mass of words will make the notes difficult to assimilate and understand at a later stage . |
| 30 | In 1984 , radio astronomers from Columbia University identified electro-magnetic vortices in our Milky Way and arrived at a similar conclusion to the theories of Alfven and Perratt . |